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RELATED WORDS : big mouth by mouth closed-class word cognate word content word curse word deictic word dirty word down in the mouth dragon's mouth dry mouth entry word equivalent word foam at the mouth foaming at the mouth four-letter anglo-saxon word four-letter word froth at the mouth frothing at the mouth function word get word ghost word give the word good word green adder's mouth guide word hand to mouth head word keep one's mouth shut key word last word leave word main entry word monosyllabic word mouth mouth bow mouth harp mouth hole mouth off mouth organ mouth watering nonce word open-class word opposite word polysemantic word polysemous word polysyllabic word portmanteau word roof of the mouth root word say the word send word shoot one's mouth off shut one's mouth smear word spoken word subordinate word superordinate word trench mouth weasel word word word accent word blindness word class word deafness word division word finder word for word word form word formation word game word meaning word method word of advice word of farewell word of god word of honor word of mouth word order word painting word picture word play word processing word processing system word processor word salad word sense word square word stress word string word structure word to the wise written word

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adverbial by word of mouth has 2 senses

• by word of mouth(r = adv.all) viva voce - orally; "I heard it viva voce"
• by word of mouth(r = adv.all) orally - by spoken rather than written means; "these stories were transmitted by word of mouth"

ROGET THESAURUS

by word of mouth

Speech

N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.

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